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Jsspfitifl f1ait limulmitr. J. C. HEARTSELL. Ed. and Pub. VOL XI. DREAM I NO OF HOMS. It eamee to me often in silence. When the fire light sputters low— When the black uncertain shadows Seem wraiths of the long ago; Always with a throb of heartache That thrills each pulsive vein, Comes the old, unquiet longing, For the peace of home again. * I’m sick of the roar of cities. And of faces cold and strange; I know where there’s warmth of welcome. And my yearning fancies rang* Back to the dear old homestead, With an aching sense of pain, But there’ll bs joy in the coming. When I go home again. When I go home again 1 there’s music That never may die away. And it seems the hands of angels, On a mystic harp, at play. Have touched with a yearning sadness On a beautiful broken strain, To which is my fond heart wording— When I go home again. Outside of my darkening window Is the great world’s crash and din, And slowly the autumn shadows Come drifting, drifting in. Sobbing, the night wind murmurs To the splash of the autumn rain; But I dream of the glorious greeting When I go home again. —Eugene Field , in Chicago News. A WEDDING PRESENT. BY CLARENCE C. CONVERSE. SMACK BROW- NELL and Hugh Morris, two chums ■ of mine,and I were I roughing it West. The camp we had I selected for our /a -r I headquarters was si'"- 'I.7S far up in the wild- V est part of Colora- , i do, and only num- f bered a baker's dozen of old, al¬ A ii most tumble-down IM log cabins. They were stretched along the eastern edge of a deep end ‘ill picturesque ravine along whose base its sturdy denizens sunk their gloomy- cabin stood little looking shafts. Our a removed from its neighbors, up the ravine. The view from its doorstep was magnificent. The rug¬ ged peaks of tall mountains towered at the west, forming an admirable frame for its grand sunsets; at the east lay in¬ viting green valleys broken by oddly winding passes, while here and there rose slighter peaks in fine contrast with their emerald beauty. We sat about the doorstep one night reading the mail the stage had just brought. I had two letters, Jack and Hughes, each one. Hugh finished his first, and when I had read mine I saw he was regarding Jack with apparent in¬ terest and amusement. Jack's face was brightening more and more, every word he read of his dainty, scented little message. He was a hand¬ some fellow then. His head was crowned with wavy, golden hair; he wore no beard, his eyes were large, dark brown, and his build was almost faultless. “Is it from Dresden?” finally ventured Eugh. Jack nodded. We smiled. Then he turned one of the leaves nearly upside down and kept on reading. The next page, too, had writing up its side, as we told by his tilting it; but that was the end, and he exclaimed; “Boys, I am the happiest fellow in the glorious United States! Do you congratu¬ late me?” “I never knew you two cared for each other,” cried Hugh, jumping at the con¬ clusion Jack's words hinted. “And tions now you ! Do say you really are open to it?” congratula¬ you mean I also stammered something, I forgot just what. “Yes, the heart of stern Papa Hastings was melted by my fervid supplications,” cried Jack, tossing his hat into the air, boyishly. “Now you two know the secret reason why I have lost ten pounds avoirdupois in the last three weeks. It hillsides. was not my climbing these perpendicular Th* old ogre wanted to force Belle into marrying some lout of a lord over there. It is a wonder I have not gone stark, staring mad.” He opened the little billet-dcux and read: “ ‘His name is Claverhouse, and he has two or more castles, and is one of les immortelles, and papa likes him hugely, but I put my foot down against marrying him. I would rather my— » J) Jack stopped there, blushing hotly, and decided not to read further. I feel as good as I would if I happened on to a ton of gold up in the hills,” he exclaimed. “If we were in New York I would take you fellows down to Del’s and give you the best supper he could serve.” “But as we are not?” queried Hugh. “Come in and burn a pipeful of boot- top tobacco with me,” he laughingly ex¬ claimed. He gayly led the way into our little cabin as he spoke, and soon we were sit¬ ting around the shaky table puffing our corncobs and chatting merrily about Jack’s good news, a cloud of blue smoke hanging over our this heads. “Somehow subject suggests one I have intended to broach three or four times before,” said Hugh, after a while. “No; it isn’t anything like Jack’s an- SPRING PLACE, MURRAY COUNTY, GA. FEBRUARY 18, 1892. nouuoement," be Added, as we started to jcke him. Slowly h« knocked the ashes from his pipe by striking it against the edge of the table, and then tilted his box—that cabin had never known a chair—against the wall. He had an unruly mustache, and he tugged at it as he said: “Monti.” “What of Monti 1” asked Jack. “I am afraid he will do some mis¬ chief before we leave here.” “Nonsense,” insisted Jack. “He is as reliable as any greaser.” “I hardly like his looks,” I acknowl¬ edged. “You remember I advised not hiring him, at the first. I think we should get rid of him.” “But I am learning a lot of Sp ,nish from him,” exclaimed Jack. “And we three athletes need hardly fear one thin greaser, who appears as weak as the pro¬ verbial cat.” “I have heard you say ‘si senor’ once or twice,” twitted Hugh. “I hardly think you will gain a hoard of knowl¬ edge fiom Monti, and I say with Cad, get rid of him. You are likely never to see Belle Hastings again if you don’t; I run a chance of never putting foot on Broadway, and Cad the same. Shall we give him his walking papers when he appears to-morrow?” “No, no," pleaded Jack, “I rather like him, too, for his Castilian airs. We have weapons. Let us keep him. That he is useful you cannot deny.” We finally gave up arguing with Jack, and let the matter drop. Monti’s ser¬ vices were not dispensed with the next day. He continued to tutor Jack in Spanish, carry our packs when we made our little excursions thereabouts, and to religiously collect his pay at eventide each day. Thus did a week slip by. On one of our rambles during that time, we came upon a fissure in a ravine’s rocky side, where we thought gold might be found. It lay about two miles east of the camp in a little bit of tlraberland. We had worked a day or so in the shafts sunk by the miners of the camp, for the novelty of the experience, and when we discovered this opening, one of us suggested that we put a blast in it and see if we could lay bare any veins of precious metal. The proposition was received with favor, and we settled on a day for the experiment. On the morning of that day, we set out for the promising spot, Monti carry¬ ing a can of powder and other accessories for the blast. Hugh and I took our guns with us. We reached the spot in about an hour and a half. Then Monti dropped his load at the edge of the fissure, and we started to prepare the blast. But our drill was misring. It had either slipped from Monti’s load or been left behind. “Monti,” said Hugh disgustedly, “get back to the cabin, as quick as your thin shanks will carry you, and bring a drill. Look along the ground, too, as you go —you may find ours dropped by some stone." “Si, senor,” the fellow returned. “We will take a little run down the ravine for game while you are gone— hey, Cad?” Hugh added. “AH right,” I exclaimed. “And I will try a snooze hore, mean¬ while,” said Jack. He stretched himself lazily upon a mossy knoll as he spoke, threw his coat over the powder keg for a pillow, and pulled at his corncob contentedly, It was a pleasant spot for a nap. A stunted little maple gave him shade; the stream flowing through the rocks, ten feet dis¬ tant, sang a melodious, sleepinducing lullaby. “I should have bad dreams with such a head-rest” said Hugh looking down at Jack’s blond locks and smiling face. “And I, too, senor,” added Monti. “You won’t forget to put that pipe out?” “Oh, no,” laughed Jack. We separated then. Monti hurried off toward the cabin and Hugh and I walked up the ravine. “If we get anything out of that hole in the wall, what do you say making it into a wedding present tor Belle Has¬ tings?” asked Hugh, as we went on. “A first-class idea?” I exclaimed. “It may be a gorgeous dinner set.” “Or a glove buttoner.” “Yes,” laughed Hugh. We went on a little further, and our way was finally barred by a steep ascent. I proposed that we return to Jack. Hugh was willing and we retraced our steps. We said little. Each was on the alert for game. A rabbit would make a very acceptable stew, but not a single cotton¬ tail crossed our path. Hugh tugged at his refractory mustache spitefully in his disappointment as he preceded me. A walk of ten minutes brought us to the bend in the ravine where Jack awaited us. When we turned it we bs- held a tableau I shall long remember; Jack lay sleeping quietly and over him bent the panther-like form of Monti. The greaser’s sallow face bore a fiendish smile. He rested on one knee, and in his right hand he held a burning match. He had not heard our approach, and be was on the point of applying the match to a bit of fuse he had inserted in the stopper of the powder keg on which Jack’s head rested. Hugh threw his rifle to his shoulder and pulled the trigger. Monti sprang back and fell with a low groan. I would have fired if I had not just unloaded my weapon. Jack started up and looked about him in surprise. “Your Spanish officious” professor was getting a little too exclaimed Hugh grimly, to him, as we came forward, and “TELL THE TRUTH.” he told Jack of what we had caught Monti at, while I made sure that the treacherous villain’s match had not ig¬ nited the fuse. “What’s up here?” cried one of three men, from the camp, coming upon us just then. “We heard a shot." Monti lay groaning and cursing by the maple’s roots, and crying out that we had tried to murder him. So I told them the facts of the case; and Jack’s pocket-book which fell from Monti’s pocket confirmed bur suspiciou that Monti intended to rob Jack and have the powder explosion cover his crime. The miners listened attentively to the ex¬ planation, and then one of them seized the wounded greaser and started oil campward, beckoning for his compan¬ ions to follow, which they did, after a “Good by, gents,” to us. “A miss is as good as a mile,” cried Jack, shortly, picking up the drill Monti had brought while we were away. “Now for our gold mine.” “You will not engage another Spanish instructor?” queried Hugh. “Not if I live to be a hundred!” re¬ turned Jack determinedly attacking the rock, with an extra vim. “I once was foolish enough to think only the story book greaser was a villain. Now I place no reliance on one of them.” We drilled and blasted the rest of the day, and that rock-pocket yielded enough gold for a really massive solid table-set for a present to Belle Hastings. — Yankee Blade. The Utilization of Niagara. It is quite likely that the first large contract the company will take for the delivery of power at a distance from its central station will be to light the city of Buffalo. This will require 3000 horse power. The present value of a horse power $35 generated from steam in Buffalo is per aunum. The company is now willing to contract to furnish on its grounds at Niagara Falls horse power per annum of twenty-four-hour days at these rates: For 5000 horse power, $10 per horse $11; power; for 4500, $10.60; for 4000, and so on down to 300 horse power, for which there will be charged $21 per horse power per annum. If there be not a very great loss of power in the transmission to Buffalo, It seems very likely that the company will have no difficulty in underbidding any con¬ cern now using steam as the motive power for the electric lights, as the loss by transmission is considerably less than twenty per cent. About the use of water power of the great falls in Buffalo within a year or so there can be no doubt. When it shall be brought to New York is another matter, but about that there are not so many elements of improbability as to excite men to scoff, for power has already been transmitted electrically a great distance, and that too with reasonable economy. At the recently held electrical exposition at Frankfort-on-the-Maiu, power to operate some of the machinery was transmitted by electricity from Lauffen-on-the- Neckar, a distance of 108 miles. At Lauffen there was a waterfall from which a turbine was opened, and a dynamo on the shaft of the turbine generated the current which was transmitted to Frank¬ fort over a wire one-sixth of an inch in diameter. It was found here that the loss in transmission was only twenty-five per cent. Therefore it is likely that the power can be transmitted four times the distance without a loss so great as to make the scheme impracticable. When it does reach the great city, and by the water which leaves its natural channel for a brief space in the Niagara River, our streets lighted, our factories run, the machine of the seamstress kept in motion, and the very drill the dentist uses to bore our teeth impelled by it, then we shall more than ever feel that around the earth has been placed a girdle, a living belt that throbs and pulsates at the bidding of science, an encircling band rich in the potentialities of mighty but well regulated movement.— Harper's Weekly. Fee of $200 for Advice of One Word. Not long ago Mr. Morris Butler, sob of John M. Butler, who had just arrived home from an evening party at 2 o’clock in the morning, heard a carriage drive up to the house, and a moment later an¬ swered a ring at the door bell. A young man of handsome face and energetic manner blurted out without ceremony: “What States can cousins legally mar¬ ry in?” “I don’t know,” said Mr. Butler, as soon as he could recover from the ef¬ fects of his visitor’s bluntness, “but I will ask father.’’ He went up stairs and, after much knocking, aroused hi* father. “Father,” said he, “what States can cousins legally mairy in?” “Kansas,” was the single word in re¬ sponse, between what sounded suspicious¬ ly like snores. Mr. Butler returned down stairs. “Well, what does ho say?” asked the visitor. “Kansas,” replied young Mr. Butler, laconically. “Thank you 1" The door was closed and the young visitor was gone. Nothing further was thought of the incident until yesterday’s mail $200 brought Mr. Butler a certified check for for “legal advice" from his hitherto un¬ known client. This is probably the highest rate per word ever $100 pud for legal advice. It divides into per syllable and $33.33 per letter .—Indianapolis ifwi. THE I’.iKil AND GARDEN. BONE MANURE FOR HENS. There is phosphorus in eggs as well as lime in their shells. The lack of these materials in winter is often one reason why hens do not lay well. We have feed the commercial phosphate to hens, mixed with grain, and they ate the first almost as greedily as the other. But ground bone is cheaper as well as better. The gizzard will grind it so that the hen will get most of the good available from it.— Boston Cultivator. ENSILAGE IN BARRELS. An inquiry has been made in regard to keeping ensilage in barrels, for the use of poultry. It is too late now to put up ensilage, but if the barrel is strong and will resist the required pres¬ sure, there is nothing to prevent the the storage of cut corn, green clover, grass, cabbage or any other material; but the pressure must be sufficient to entirely exclude the air, as fermentation, should it result, will destroy the con¬ tents of the barrel.— Farm and Fireside. SPIDERS IN THE CONSERVATORY. We often heard of red spiders in con¬ nection with plants, and what an amount of damage is caused by them. But it should not be inferred from this that all spiders are injurious to plants. The so- called red spiders which are harmful to plants, are not true spiders, but are a species of mite—small, indeed—but mighty often in numbers and effect. The true spiders, such as spin visible webs and are found in dark corners about buildings, are predaceous in their habits, and live upon flies and such in¬ sects as may prove injurious to vegeta¬ tion, Their presence may not be appre¬ ciated, because of the prejudice which many have against them, but they are friends in the conservatory rather than foes. They should not be classed with the little mite known as red spider,— Ladies' Home Companion. THE HEAT OF A nOTRED. There is one necessary element of growth in the germination of seeds (this will be fully explained on another occa¬ sion) besides moisture and warmth, and this is air. If a seed is buried too deep in the soil it does not germinate. This is a matter of common experience, as when land is plowed deeply or dug up from a considerable depth, seeds ger¬ minate that have laid in the ground for many years. Almost all seeds contain a large proportion of oil,-and this is a pro¬ vision of nature for their preservation. This oil resists decay and prevents rot¬ ting of the seeds. The manure from an old hotbed spread out on the surface of the ground the next spring will almost always produce many weeds, and espec¬ ially grass and clover, the seeds of which have remained sound in it from the year before. The same is true of manure heaps a year old.— New York Times, COUNTRY BEEF CLUBS. We used to be foolish enough, in this neighborhood —Philadelphia, Mo. —to sell all our nice fat beef to the butcher for city people to eat, and we would eat old salty bacon, except late in the iall we would kill our winter beef. That way is changed now. We have, in this neighborhood and other neighborhoods in this county, organized beef clubs, which annually kill fifty to sixty beeves, inside of a radius of eight miles, before freezing weather comes. Usually eight persons or families agree to furnish a yearling heifer. Then some one is chosen or agrees to do the killing, divid¬ ing and keeping of books, and is paid by the club $1.25 to $1.50 for each beef killed and thus divided. If, in case one- eighth of a beef is too much for one family, they either sell part or take in another partner. We begin killing about the middle of September, or as soon as nights are cool enough thor¬ oughly to cool off the beef. We kill yearling heifers because they make bet¬ ter beef than steers, and are not worth as much money. Heifers sell at two cents and two and one-quarter cents per pound, gross. That makes our beef net us four to four and one-half cents, and gives us a chance to get rid of all bad colors and low grade cattle.— Journal of Agriculture. POTATO VINE BORER. In the past five or six years there has appeared in this section, writes Dr. A. G. Chase,of Kansas, an enemy of the po¬ tato that is seriously affecting the yield. It is a borer, about an inch and a quar¬ ter long by two lines in diameter, pink¬ ish brown on the back, with a light yel¬ low, narrow stripe on the sides. Indeed, I think there may be more than one kind of these borers, although I have never found but this one in the potato; but I have found another and different worm in squash and pumpkin-vines and in the common “careless” or hog weed, as it is often called. In the potato vine they do their work chiefly from the middle of June to July 10. They generally enter a few inches above the ground and work up and down, hollowing out the pith and pushing their chips out through the entrance hole, like the hiokory and other wood borers,and the vine soon dies. With the early crop of potatoes their work does little damage, but second early and late—unless very late—they reduce the yield from one-fourth to one-half, by checking the growth. In my potatoes this year every third or fourth bill had a borer, and many of the vines were dead August 1 that ought to have been iia vigorous growth. I am uot an entomol¬ SI.OO a Year in Advance. ogist to recogmze the moth, or to hatch the worm. I have thought that two or three sprayings of the vines with Paris green might prevent the laying of the egg; or, what is more probable, two or three thorough dustings with insect pow¬ der, but I have not tried either.— Amer¬ ican Agriculturist. THE HESSIAN FLY. The Hessian fly has more or less in¬ fested the wheat fields of many of ths States during a period exceeding 100 years. It is an imported insect and its in¬ troduction about the time of the landing of the Hessian troops in Revolutionary times has led to its name. Professor P. M, Webster,now consult¬ ing entomologist at the Ohio Station,de¬ scribes the insect as a small two-winged fly about one-eighth of an inch long and of a dusky color, appearing during May and June and again in September and October. The eggs are deposited on the upper side of the leaves and the young as soon as they hatch make their way down the plant behind the sheath to near the lower joint and there become im¬ bedded in the soft part of the stem. Here they pass the winter and summer; in the former case in the young wheat, and in the latter case in the stubble. The adults appear and the eggs are deposited at dates varying with the latitude, being earlier in the fall to the northward and later to the southward. After the fly has gained possession of a field no reme¬ dy is known that will destroy it. Among the preventive measures are burning the stubble, late sowing and ro¬ tation of crops. The idea of late sowing is to retard the plants so that they do not appear until after the greater part of the fall brood of flies have appeared and died, when, if sown with fertilizers, the plants may overcome the effect of this de¬ lay before winter closes in. Pasturing early sown wheat in the fall may destroy many of the maggots and eggs. This insect suffers much from the at¬ tacks of minute parasites, and Professor Riley, of the Department of Agriculture, has, during the year,imported from Eng- landa foreign species of these parasites, some of which, by his instruction, have been turned loose in the fields in the vi¬ cinity of Columbus, with the hope that they will become established in the State. —New York World. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Don’t unnecessarily expose the horse to storms and wind. The best poultry breed is the one you have tested aud tried and is best adapted to your purpose. In all cases of fistulu or poll-evil, it is well to give a constitutional as well as local treatment. A sore like these must affect the blood more or less. It does a team no good to let it stand tied to a hitcbing-post,with the thermom¬ eter ten degrees below zero, an opinion which everybody will endorse. It is reported that there are in the United States 10,000 bee-keepers having 500 colonies. A very prominent bee¬ keeper seems to doubt the statement. Poultry raising as an exclusive business has only in exceptional cases proved a success, the principal dependence for both eggs and poultry is upon the farmer. There are ringbones that cannot be cured, unless* skilled veterinarian exam¬ ines the case; however, there is no way to tell that, except by trying the usual remedies of blistering and firing. A reliance on old and tried varieties of fruits is the proper thing for a novice in fruit culture. Many of these old fruits are as prolific and profitable as they were a generation ago. Let the scientists and the nurserymen do the experimenting. Treat the dog well if you are deter¬ mined to keep him. Feed him such foods as will satisfy the whole system. We have little doubt that some dogs are led to kill sheep because the system craves for nourishment that it does not get. grain There’s not a farm where has been fed, especially cotton or linseed meal, but the evidence may be read in the fertility of the soil. These grains are so rich in plant food that the ani¬ mals take but a small per cent, in its passage through the body. If you know that dam and sire are without weaknesses, we would say to a correspondent, there is no danger in close inbreeding. The trouble is that it is difficult to know that. It is not to be forgotten that our improved breeds are largely the result of inbreeding. Some men will plow and work around a bowlder for half a lifetime. The cheapest way to dispose of it, if it is too large to be hauled off,is to dig a pit and topple it over into it. We have seen many an unsightly, bothersome stone effectually disposed of in this way. Pigs cannot he grown profitably on whey alone, but when fed with cornmeal and shorts there is a marked saving; Seven pounds of whey .about equal one of cornmeal when they are fed together, and therefore when the former is worth twelve dollars per ton whey is worth eight cents per hundred. A growing hog will, if of good breed, increase fully one pound in weight every day of its life. If it does this it is pretty sure to leave a profit over cost of seeding aside from its addition to the manure pile. If it does not, dispose oi it in some way, and get pigs that will do this. There are several breeds that can be fed with profit and the grades oi these for feeding are as good as the pure blood. NO. 50. NEWS AND NOTES FOB WUsiEN. Tight sleeves cause red hands. A bow-knot is a rage in jewelry. Gloves and stockings correspond. New handkerchiefs have no hems. Lorgnettes are made with shorter han¬ dles. More flounces in the near future, say* the modistes. There is a rage for colored leather belts holding a watch. Queen Margherita, of Italy, has just at¬ tained her fortieth birthday. Russian fur-trimmed cloaks are the fad among the women of fashion in Paris. Cameos are very much in vogue and are displacing diamonds as head orna¬ ments. There never was a time when women dressed with better taste than they do to-day. There are over one hundred regions in the world where women enjoy the right of suffrage. Between the years 1590 and 1680 no less than 3400 women were burned in Scotland for witchcraft. Mrs. J. C. Ayer has given her hand¬ some residence in Lowell, Mass., to be used as a home for young women. Marion Crawford, the novelist, says that there is only one thing that a wo¬ man really hates, and that is being bored. Margaret Fuller’s pin cushion was ex¬ hibited and regarded reverently at the Woman Suffragists’ Fair in Boston, Mass. The good people of the town of Dud-: ley have presented the new Lady Dudley with a beautiful diamond crescent valued at $3500. A company of women is running two canning and preserving factories in Mich¬ igan. Not a man is allowed to work in either place. Mrs. Margaret R. Elliot is the first and only instance among Wisconsin Congre- gationalists of a woman being taken into the ministry. There is said to be more widows in New York City than any olher city in the world, London excepted, Paris comes third. Queen Victoria, of England, is a great believer in the benefit of early bed time. It is the odd night when she is up after 10 o’clock. Dr. Helen Druskovitch, the first wo¬ man in Austria to follow a course of philosophical studies,has lost her reason from overwork. Miss Leslie Colton, the young Amer¬ ican artist who is exhibiting in London and Paris, has won her principal reputa¬ tion in the past two years. $5000 The English Queen has an income of a day, and yet she has had many queer little experiences of fiodiug her¬ self penniless in awkward situations. Mme. Albani, the prima donna, is a French Canadian, and was born in Mon¬ treal, her real name being Emma La- jeunesse. Her debut was made at Mes¬ sina in 1870. There are but three places in the world where women possess all the privileges of voting which are accorded to men, and they are Iceland, Pitcairn Islands and the Isle of Man. Dr. Concepcion Alexandre is the first woman appointed to any official post in Spain. She has recently been made a member of the staff at the Hospital de la Princesa, in Madrid. Mme. Tateno, wife of the Japanese Minister at Washington, can talk Eng¬ lish well enough to go shopping, and she spends just at much time over it as her American acquaintances. The faculty of Wesleyan University at Middletown, Conn., have removed their restrictions upon gentlemen callers. The ladies assert that they are old enough to behave properly unhampered by rules. Queen Margherite, of Italy, is a pretty brunette who, though the mother of a son now of age, looks as attractive as when she was a bride, twenty-three years ago. She takes great pains to re¬ tain her good looks. For the girl who affects tan colors there are, among other novelties, collar¬ ettes made of monkey, mink and fox tails, purses and card-cases bound in pig¬ skin and brown umbrellas and fans with almond-wood sticks. Princess de Sagan, leader of fashions and frivolities in Paris, who has contri¬ buted more than any other woman to the fortune of Worth, the man milliner, has a villa at Trouville that reproduces even to details the residence cf a Persian millionaire. A remarkable family of eight old women is living in the same house at Texio, Sweden. Three are widows and five are old maids. Their ages aggre¬ gate within a year or two of 700 years, each of the women being nearly ninety years of age. Small bonnets have small ribbon poufs and rosettes in delicate shades that bunch up prettily in rosette forms, such as let¬ tuce green, apricot, Venus, pink, sky- blue, maize, etc. Two or three shades may be used, but harmony is always re¬ garded in the grouping. In Cassel, Germany, turning has been made compulsory in all the girls’schools. which The Gossler school reform bill, will be up again for discussion iu the 1 Prussian Landtag, proposes that turning {la shall be compulsory it is in in Berlin, every girls’ school Prussia, as